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Jessica Phelan

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Weird Stuff World Leaders Give Each Other

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

NPR

By Jessica Phelan

You say potato, John Kerry says let's give it to Russia.

The U.S. secretary of state proudly presented his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with two Idaho potatoes at a meeting in Paris on Monday. It was the gift that kept on giving, a) because Kerry's spokeswoman ...